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vineri, 30 iunie 2017

SCOTTISH HORIZONS: DOUGLAS LIPTON

La sage petite poule

- Qui fut le premier,

La poule ou l’oeuf?

- Aucun, Maman. Ah, je sais, je crois.

(Et bien : qui le fut, qui ne le fut pas ?)

- Il fut le coq.

Bantam Hen

- Whit wis it cam furst,

the chicken or the egg?

Neethir, mun. Oh, aye, Ah ken.

(Weel, Ah wid, widn’t Ah?)

- It wis the cock.

Găinuşa înţeleaptă

- Care fu primu,

puiu sau ou?

- Niciunu, mămucă. Ah cre’ că ştiu.

(Ei bine, fu, nu fu?)

- Fu cocoşu.

Douglas Lipton (1953, Glasgow, Scotland). Poet. Educated in Glasgow. he has lived his working and married life in Dumfriesshire in south-west Scotland. He began writing – poems, mostly – when he was a teenager, and joined Glasgow University’s famous extra-mural creative writing class for a couple of seasons, tutored by Philip Hobsbaum and Alastair Gray. At university, creative writing fellows William McIlvanney and James Aitchison gave further encouragement. Early publication included pieces in New Writing Scotland, West Coast Magazine and Lines Review. Teaching in Lockerbie at the time of the 1988 incident, Douglas Lipton collaborated with artist Keith McIntyre and composer Karen Wimhurst to produce Songs for the Falling Angel – a requiem for Lockerbie, which was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival and elsewhere during 1990-91, and broadcast by STV. Pieces from the cycle were read by surviving family at the Memorial Cairn Dedication Ceremony (1995) at Arlington National Cemetery in the USA. Douglas Lipton’s first collection of poems, The Stone Sleeping-Bag, was published by Mariscat in 1993. Subsequent publications – chapbooks or full collections – have appeared from Markings and Five Bob Ogre. He works as a learning support teacher. Published in CLH: 5/2012, Ant. 3/2012, 1, 2, 3, 6/2013, 2/2014, 3, 4, 5, 6/2015, 1, 4, 5/2016. Published books in “Bibliotheca Universalis”: Lost Sister (2014), Alien Driftwwod (2015).

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